There’s nothing that warms the heart more than a tale of love or in this case respect gone sour. If rumors are to be believed Urmila is miffed with her fav director Ram Gopal Verma over the way the publicity of her forthcoming film Ek Haseena Thi is being handled. There are no signs of any posters of the film. In mysterious ways does Ramu work.

Akbar Khan called an urgent Press Conference on Saturday, December 27, 2003 claiming that DVD’s and VCD’s bearing the imprint of his film “Taj Mahal An Eternal Love Story” had hit the market but the copies inside the cover weren’t of his film. The CD played to show a film with a similar title “Taj Mahal - A Monument of Love” directed by Robin Khosla.

We hear that Shah Rukh may team up with Raj Kanwar as the latter is keen to work with SRK. This will be their second film together, the first ‘Deewana’ in 1992 helped launch the career of SRK and the late Divya Bharati.

Salman Khan celebrated his 38th Birthday on 27 December. Planned by his siter Alvira, the bash at Vie in Juhu was attended by Anil and Tina Ambani, Abhishek Bachan, Rani Mukeherji, Sunjay Dutt, Manisha Koirala, Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Manish Kapoor among others.

Pritish Nandy Communications has announced the global release of its film, CHAMELI, on January 9, 2004. The film is directed by Sudhir Mishra and stars Rahul Bose and Kareena Kapoor.

A weird rumor is floating about that Karan Johar will appear in Shah Rukh's next movie Main Hoon Na, which will also star Sushmita Sen and Sunil Shetty.

Shilpa Shetty is supposed to be thrilled to be working with Abhishek Bachchan. They’ll star together for the forst time in Revathis’ Phir Milenge. Which will see the light of day come spring 2004.

Anupam Kher will star with Samuel L Jackson in Soul And Spice, the film is set in New York and will be shot in the spring of next year.

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